“Nacimiento de la pasión que se busca en el núcleo de su vida”. Approach to the Sufism in a Francisco Magaña’s Book of Poems

• Main Author: Diana Rodríguez Vértiz
• Format: Article
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México 2015-02-01
• Series: Acta Poética
• Subjects: Islam en México; poesía; sufismo; Francisco Magaña
• Online Access: https://revistas-filologicas.unam.mx/acta-poetica/index.php/ap/article/view/447

In 1992, Francisco Magaña published his third book of poems Calendas, laMirada, under the collection “El ala de tigre” of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Nostalgia for a past time is suggested from the titleand is reinforced by the opening epigraph, which belongs to the Persian mysticalpoet Jalal al-Din Rumi: “Estuvimos en el cielo, éramos amigos / de losángeles; Padre, déjanos / regresar allí, pues ésa es nuestra / tierra”. In thisbook, there are many intertexts and hypertexts referring to typical themes ofSufism. The call to contemplation, the relation between music and dance, theimages of samá, childhood and love as a path of union with the divine aresome of the more recurrent topics in this book, in which the Tabascan poet, rather than participating in a sufi mystical experience, amazed, writes abouthis discovery of this tradition.